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- From: lew@4ccvw15.scg.hac.com (Lyman Lew)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Re: Quickie 500 Needs to be REFORMED!!
- Message-ID: <22913@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 20:09:38 GMT
- References: <22808@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> <ericw.713649487@hobbes> <BszBqo.533@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- Reply-To: lew@4ccvw15.UUCP (Lyman Lew)
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- In article <BszBqo.533@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- >
- >Here are some other restrictions that might work and not obsolete
- >anything:
- >
- >1) Restrict venturi size. This was done with FAI Combat and caused
- > a pretty good slowdown. That class was getting too fast for pilots
- > to keep up with. Didn't reduce the carnage though...
- >
- >2) Legislate a competition prop. Hopefully something large enough
- > to slow things down. The Nelson can't produce power at lower
- > rpm's so they'd have to modify it (eg. lower the exhaust timing)
- > with the end result being lower speeds overall.
- >
- >3) Reduce the amount of nitro allowed in the management-supplied
- > fuel.
- >
- >4) Use a metered volume of fuel. Competitors will have the option
- > of running wide open and running out of fuel (resulting in a Zero
- > score) or throttling back and not running out of fuel. Easy to do
- > with a syringe (the officials suck tanks dry before they refill
- > it to avoid people putting pure nitro in the tank before taking
- > it to the filling station).
- >
- >They could also just ban the Nelson or have a $150 price cap. The
- >problem is that the other engines also have pretty high list prices.
- >
-
- Iskandar,
-
- These are excellent suggestions and can easily be implemented. Note
- similar restrictions are used in the INDY 500. Smaller CFM carburetors
- and lower turbo boost are two that comes to my mind. The big reason
- for this is to slow down cars and minimize the potential for carnage.
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- Lyman Lew, lew@caesi.scg.hac.com
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